This blog is about my experiences as an underground food journalist in Southeastern United States and sometimes beyond. It is designed to educate you about what food is growing here; who is growing it; and who is cooking it or making it into alcohol. Occasionally this blog is about people who use green tech related to food.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Goodness Gracious Acres, Raw Goat Milk, West Palm Beach, Fla. Updated

West Palm Beach, Fla.—Are
you looking for Florida fresh raw goat milk pet food? Then Goodness Gracious Acres near
Loxhatchee is your place. Owner and self proclaimed resident milk-maid Jojo
Milano shepherds a flock of 41 goats, 15 of which she milks, on her one and
half acre property.

In February, the Gold &
Treasure Coast Slow Food chapter organized a self-driven multiple county farm
tour.I and a dozen or so people
descended on Goodness Gracious Acres to pet goats, to take pictures of goats, and to
watch goats get milked.

Two and four legged kids play in yard at Goodness Gracious
Acres, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Copyright 2014 by Helen A Lockey

Several kids, both human and
goat, played jump the plastic bin, in the closed off front pen. There were
numerous free-range chickens, ducks, and geese. She sells the eggs at the Ft.
Pierce market under the “For Pet Consumption Only,” label.

As Milano led a Nubian doe
(female) goat, by the collar, to be milked she explained how goats were foragers
and not grazers like sheep. To make sure the goat stood still while milking she fed it healthy treats.

Milano sells the raw
unpasteurized milk under the Florida Department Of Agriculture label— “Pet Food Supplement— not for human consumption.” And she definitely does not want to know that her customers, instead of their pets, are drinking her milk. If someone does
tell her this then Milano can’t sell them any raw milk products.

She also takes and stores
all the names, addresses and phone numbers of the people she sells to in case
the State ever investigates her. She has many more pre-sale requirements listed
on her website.

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I am a former server turned informative underground food journalist. I like to cook using local ingredients. I have visited many farms, ranches, dairies, community gardens, urban farms, farm-to-table restaurants and wineries in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and even Maine. I have also interviewed companies that use sustainable practices. Occasionally, I go under cover to farm-to-table restaurants to see how they are preparing fresh, local ingredients.